Scott Stader admits he is not the greatest or fastest runner of all time, but two qualities he does use in his running regimen are consistency and persistence.

Stader, 47, a Jackson native, has run at least one mile every day since Jan. 1, 2013. That is 2,327 straight days as of Sunday Thursday.

After running his first marathon in 2007, Stader started to work toward a new goal – to race in a marathon in all 50 states. On May 5, he completed the 50th race in the 50th state when he ran in the Flying Pig Marathon in Cincinnati.

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Jackson native Scott Stader shows off medals he has received from completing marathons in all 50 states.(Photo: KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun)

"I started running 15 years ago, and the goal was to run one marathon," Stader said. "In 2007, I got my first marathon in, and it was really slow. It bugged me that it was that slow. I went up to Kentucky a few months later to redeem myself from that slow first one."

Stader was told by the leadership of the 50 States Marathon Club that he is the 1,495th person to complete 50 marathons in 50 states and the 26th person from Tennessee to do so. His first marathon was the Country Music Marathon in Nashville.

Stader said that his favorites have been the recent one in Cincinnati and the one he ran in Kauai, Hawaii. The toughest was his first time running the Boston Marathon in 2012. The one that means the most to him is the St. Jude Marathon in Memphis.

"The running club that I started in 2012, RUN365, is a sponsor of the St. Jude race," Stader said. "To date, we have raised over a quarter of a million dollars."

And he has run marathons of all sizes, from the 30,000 runners who finish the Boston Marathon to one in New York that had 23 finishers.